Friday, October 23, 2009

Must.....Insult.....Opponents

Despite repeated warnings to back off on the insults over at str, as I discussed before here, Jason Engwer still just cannot resist. He's still doing it. In comes Amy again, the Christian moderator, to ask him why he thinks it is necessary to waste time talking about what people do. She says "We can see what people do. You don't need to take time away from your arguments to tell us." She goes on to say "if you can't represent Christ to people--Christ, who treats you in a way you do not in the least deserve--then you can't stay."

His inability to resist the temptation to insult reminded me immediately of Homer Simpson. Homer can't resist the temptation to eat rotten meat, because it is cheap. In Homer and Apu we observe Apu, the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart ripping off his customers. He overwrites an expiration date on some ham.

Apu: Jiminy Cricket! Wooh, expired ham. [scribbles over the expiry date] Oh, this time I have gone to far. No, no one will fall for --Homer: Woo hoo! Cheap meat! [picks it up] Ooh, this one's open. [starts eating it]

At home on the couch, Homer continues devouring the expired ham, but his stomach begins to rebel.

[eats ham, but his stomach groans]Stomach...churning![eats some more]Bowels...clenching! Not much time...must...finish...[eats some more]

About me

Raised as an evangelical, biblical inerrantist and political right winger I became an atheist and finally left winger later in life. I love to argue since I believe argument is what helped turn my former false beliefs into true ones, and that's been good for me. This blog is kind of a place for me to collect resources that justify my beliefs and also to continue to have arguments that refine and improve my views.